THE ROADMENDER
Fairless, Michael.
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Book Details:
Publisher:Medici Society
Published Date:30th November -0001
Weight:0.5201 kilograms
Binding:hardcover
Condition:VeryGood
Notes:Chiswick:Riccardi Press Books for Medici society/Philip Lee Warner/Riccardi Press, London & Boston, 1920. number 511 of an Limited edition of 1025 copies, sm4to light blue cloth spine, gilt titles over light olive green cloth bds, top edges gilt, other edges uncut,a some slight discolouration but otherwise a clean copy with previous owner leather bookplate to ffep ;+107+[12pp, one wth watermark visible], graphic of one bar of music notation, The Roadmender; Out of the Shadow; and, At the White Gate. wiki=Unable to continue her charitable work after 1884, Barber took up writing under the pseudonym Michael Fairless, the "Michael" inspired by her childhood friend Michael McDonnell (1882?1956), subsequently chief justice of the British Mandate of Palestine. Her first book was the religious romance The Gathering of Brother Hilarius (1901) but it was The Roadmender (1902) that achieved a wild success.
